Mount&Blade - v1.010 Released

Taleworlds has upped Mount & Blade to v1.010 (and remembered to keep a changelog this time). The headline item is a fix for issues with ATI cards, although a bunch of general fixes are included:

Version 1.010 Changelog:----------------------Rendering artefacts with ATi Radeon 4x cards has been fixed.Fixed occasional problems in launching the game on Windows Vista.Optimizations in rendering performance.Fixed bug where a village elder would never give you another quest if you ever refused one.The game will no longer issue a warning if a track is supposed to be played while music is disabled.During castle attacks, attackers now spread out at the beginning so that those who run to push the assault tower can pass through easily.Player's items will no longer loose qualifiers if you pick an item of the same type from the ground.Laidies will no longer give dueling quests against their own husbands.Raiding a village now reduces your relation with its faction.Fixed equipment for khergit_horsemen and Camp Defenders.Problems in various villages and castles have been fixed.Pathfinding to towns on the map has been improved.Crossbows will now start as loaded in battles.Each point for stength now adds +1 to total hit-points.Base hit-points has been reduced to 35Fixed bug where some deserter parties would contain clones of the player character.Assault tower now works correctly at Dhirim Town Walls.Fixed bug where being attacked while raiding a village would result all subsequent battles to take place in that village.Player is now awarded with money after finishing the "Follow Spy" quest.Fixed various problems with "Follow Spy" quest.Fixed bug where allied Lords wouldn't join your battles after winning a civil war.Fixed bug where player wouldn't be awarded the full prize in arena fights if he managed to be the "last man standing".Fixed bug where there would be an odd item at the bottom of merchant inventories.Fixed bug where sometimes a horseback character would be thrown forward unrealistically after being killed. Players can no longer use shields that can't be used on horseback if they start the battle wielding the shield.Various dialog and text errors have been corrected.Abandoning the civil war of a claimant and then taking up the claim of a new one no longer causes incorrect behavior.